Research Catalog

Title

Forensic dental evidence : an investigator's handbook / C. Michael Bowers.

Author

Bowers, C. Michael

Publication

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2004.

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Details

Description

xx, 211 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Summary

"This is a must-have book for forensic scientists and law enforcement involved in processing crime scenes, conducting criminal investigations, and analyzing crime scene and dental evidence. The book also provides the legal profession a framework to assess dental evidence requirements in their casework and subsequent litigation."--Jacket.

Subject

• Expert Testimony
• Denture Identification Marking
• Forensic Dentistry > methods
• Dental jurisprudence > Handbooks, manuals, etc

Genre/Form

• Handbook
• Handbooks and manuals

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Dental detectives -- The evidence, the forensic dentist and dental analysis -- Recognition, recovery and analysis of bite mark evidence -- DNA and forensic odontology -- Physical abuse and forensic dentistry: the diagnosis of violence -- Dental investigations in mass disaster incidents -- The use of digital imaging in human identification -- Legal issues in forensic odontology -- Photography and forensic dental evidence.

ISBN

0121210421 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003068593

OCLC

• 53903794
• SCSB-9983133

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library